Cushioned horseshoe.



rmfms. Patented Mar'. .27, |900. T. .L LovETT.

CUSHIONED HOBSESHOE.

(Application led June 17, 1888.)

Nu Model.)

NITED STATES THOMAS J. LOVETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASsICNOR TO THEBUDD DOBLE TIRE COMPANY, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUSHIONED HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,965, dated March27, 1900.'

Application filed June 17, 1898. Serial No, 683,692. (No model.)

.To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. LOVIITT, of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare the following specification,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthe same, to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention relates to that class of horseshoes in which rubber orother 'suitable material is secured upon the under surface in order toprevent slipping upon smooth pavements and to deaden the shocks intraveling over rough and hard pavements.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means forsecuring the cushion-blocks to the under side of the plate of the shoe;and to this end the invention consists of the features hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the bottom of ashoe embodying the present invention, one cushion-block being shown insection. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views, andFigs. 5 and 6 are views of a modication.

The base-plate l of the shoe is provided With the usual nail-holes 2 forsecuring the shoe to the hoof and may be provided with a toe-piece 3 forengaging the toe of the hoof. rIhe shoe is provided on its under surfacewith cushion-blocks and studs secured to the base-plate between theblocks, and wires are passed through the blocks and intermediate studsand serve to hold the blocks rmly to the base -plate. Any desired numberof cushion-blocks and interposed studs may be used, and said blocks andstuds may extend entirely around the shoe, if desired. It is preferred,however, to provide the shoe with a toe-piece of hard substance, whichis preferably in the form of a metal calli formed integral with thebase-plate, and to arrange cushion-blocks and intermediate studs uponeach side of the shoe between the toe-call; and heel. This preferredform of shoe is shown in the drawings. As shown, the shoe is provided oneach side of the toe-calk 4 with two cushion-blocks 5. These blocksmaybe made of any suitable material-such as they are formed.

leather, rubber, or composition-or may be made of several differentmaterials; but said blocks are preferably formed of rubber. Thecushion-blocks are secured to the baseeplate by means of one or moreWires 7, which extend longitudinally through said sections and alsothrough studs 8, secured to the baseplate between the blocks. The wires7 are also secured to the base-plate at the toe by passing into thetoe-call; or a stud 9, secured to the base-plate adjacent to thetoe-calli, and are secured at the heel by passing into studs or into theheel-ealks l0. The blocks 5 preferably extend below the surface of thestuds and the toe and heel calks; but, if desired, the studs may be ushor nearly Iiush with the surfaceof the blocks, in which case said studswill relieve the wear upon the said blocks. A single strand of wire maybe passed through the blocks and the intermediate studs but it ispreferred to provide two strands of wire and to arrange said wire asshown in Fig. 1. As shown in said figure,

'the wire 7 passes through the heelcalk 10,

the blocks 5, and studs 8 and 9. Thus the tread of the shoe is made upof a number of comparatively short cushion blocks, which are firmly andsecurely held upon the baseplate by longitudinal wires, which are secured to the base-plate by passing through the studs, and all danger ofdisplacement or distortion of the tread is prevented.

It may be desirable to embed a strip of strengthening material in theblocks 5 above the wires 7 in cases where there is liability that thewires will tear through the blocks owin g to the character of thematerial of which In Fig. 4 is shown a crosssection of a block providedwith a strip of perforated strengthening material in the form or Wovenwire 11. In ease the cushion-blocks are formed of rubber this stripmaybe incorporated therein in the vulcanization process, the rubberpassing through the perforations between the Wires and holding the stripiirmly embedded in the rubber. In this case the Wires 7 aresubstantially in contact with the Woven Wire and any tearing of therubber by the wires is prevented.

In using the shoe the greater part of the Wear comes upon the front ortoe portion of IOO the shoe, and it may be desirable, therefore, toprovide the shoe with clips, as indicated in dotted lines at 12, whichclips will serve to relieve the wear upon the cushion-blocks at the toeportion of the shoe and will also protect said blocks from blows orshocks tending to displace said blocks at this portion of the shoe.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is shown a shoe in which the ends of the wires Zaresecured to the baseplate at the heel by means of a stud 13 instead of bybeing extended into the heel-calli 10. This shoe is provided with clips14 on the outside of the blocks 5 near the toe to increase thedurability of the tread at this part of the shoe and to protect theblocks at this point.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A horseshoe having a base-plate, a stud secured to the base-plate, acushion-block upon each side of said stud, and a wire passing throughsaid stud and blocks, substantially as described.

2. A horseshoe having a base-plate, a stud secured to the base-plate ateach side of the shoe, cushion-blocks on each side of each of saidstuds, and a wire passing through each stud and the adjacent blocks,substantially as described.

3. A horseshoe having a base-plate, a stud secured to the base-plate ateach side of the shoe, cushion-blocks on each side of each of saidstuds, and a wire passing through each stud, and the adjacent blocks,said wire being secured to the base-plate at the heel and toe,substantially as described.

`4L. A horseshoe having a base-plate, a toecalk, two cushion-blocks oneach side of the shoe, a stud secured to the base-plate on each side ofthe shoe between the blocks, and a wire passing through the blocks andstud at each side of the shoe, said wire being secured to the base-plateat the heel and toe, substantially as described. i

5. A horseshoe having a base-plate, a stud secured to the base-plate, acushion-block on each side of said stud extendingl below said stud, anda wire passing through said stud and blocks, substantially as described.

6. A horseshoe having a base-plate, a toeoalk, heel-calks, a studsecured to the baseplate between each heel-call; and the toe-oalk,cushion-blocks between the heel-calks and studs, cushion-blocks betweenthe studs and toe-calk, and wires passing through the blocks and studs,substantially as described.

7. A horseshoe having a baseplate, a toecalk, heel-calks, a stud securedto the baseplate between each heel-calk and the toe-calk, cushion-blocksbetween the heel-calks and studs, cushion-blocks between the studs andthe toe-calli, studs secured to the base-plate at the ends of the blocksadjacent to the toecalk, wires looped through said latter studs andhaving their strands passing through the cushion-blocks and intermediatestuds, substantially as described.

8. A horseshoe having a base-plate, two cushion-blocks on each side ofthe shoe, a stud secured to the' base-plate on each side of the shoebetween said blocks, a wire passing through the stud and blocks on eachside of the shoe, and clips at the toe of the shoe outside thecushion-blocks, substantially as described.

THOMAS J. LOVETT. Witnesses:

M. S. MACKENZIE, M. J. FROST.

